Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing what your best colours are and what styles will suit your figure can open up a whole new wardrobe — and make shopping a great deal easier . |
| 2 | Qume Corp 's Milpitas , California-based Qume Peripherals Inc is porting its QX15 ASCII/ANSI X-Windows terminal server code to AIX and has cut a strategic deal with IBM RS/6000 reseller Dickens Data to distribute the QX15 as the Dickens MAX-Terminal . |
| 3 | ‘ He was depressed and has suffered a great deal of mental anguish . ’ |
| 4 | He now shares a house near the hostel with four other care-leavers and has stabilised a great deal . |
| 5 | This initiative has presented the bank in a very positive way and has generated a great deal of media coverage . |
| 6 | It is an excellent establishment and has attracted a good deal of support and resources from the private sector . |
| 7 | The association is in touch with thousands of people caring for relatives and friends and has learned a great deal about the difficulties they face . |
| 8 | Fashion garments may and do cost a great deal , but break down the component parts of that price and the sum paid for the natural fibre fabrics begins to look a little odd . |
| 9 | not because he was Mansfield , but because he was a man of their own party and had done a great deal of work in connection with municipal , industrial and trade union affairs generally … |
| 10 | On taking her history , it was discovered that when she was twelve or thirteen she had had frequent nose bleeds and had lost a great deal of blood . |
| 11 | Acquiring the products to be exported from India was not so simple ; the Company directors had to put down the ‘ investment ’ , mostly in silver bullion though public pressure made them include some English products as well , and had to finance a good deal of the running costs of the textile production that they were encouraging . |
| 12 | Both the Lord Lieutenant and the Chief Secretary were politicians and had to spend a good deal of time in London attending Cabinet and Parliament ; therefore the Under-Secretary , who was a Civil Servant , was the effective head of British Administration in Ireland for most of every year . |
| 13 | The lecture had kept her mind occupied all through breakfast , and had contained a great deal of sound advice on the best method of dealing with fitzAlan , which had not included embracing him as if he were in truth her husband . |
| 14 | Tuathal , who knew that thoroughness was the secret of success , had long since extracted from Thorkel Fóstri all that he could tell about Earl Siward of Northumbria , and had deduced a good deal more . |
| 15 | The review deals with undergraduate courses and manages to condense a great deal of material into a concise and readable form . |
| 16 | Black Holes are fascinating , and have caused a great deal of excitement over the past 20 years . |
| 17 | ‘ We played the leading role in bringing Zimbabwe to independence and have given a great deal of help to Zimbabwe since independence , ’ she said . |
| 18 | But most MEPs say the parliament should be in Brussels where they have their offices , and have signed a lease-buy deal on a £171 million debating chamber in Brussels which involves a legal obligation of annual rent of £16.7 million and will now be used for just a few hours each year . |
| 19 | Some buildings are larger and better known than others , and have had a great deal of publicity ; others are perhaps more modest in both scale and workmanship , but still deserving of attention as an important part of the local scene . |
| 20 | Tutorial colleges responded speedily to the new demand — and have changed a great deal as a result . |